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Acclaimed singer-songwriter Parker Millsap has released his new album today. Wilderness Within You, available on CD, LP, and at all DSPs via Okrahoma Records, is Millsap's sixth studio album and was produced with new collaborator Ryan McFadden, featuring a backing band of musicians whom Millsap had largely never met or played with until they began rolling tape – Ross McReynolds on drums, Calvin Knowles on bass, Juan Solorzano and Mark Sloan on guitar & pedal steel, Ryan Connors and Will Honaker on keys, Jake Botts on saxophone, and Daniel Foulks on fiddle. In most cases, these musicians didn’t hear the song they were about to track until minutes before the recording began. The album premiered yesterday on Garden & Gun and has been receiving fantastic reviews.
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PRAISE FOR WILDERNESS WITHIN YOU:
"It’s Millsap at his most explosive and daring, delivering his most memorable album to date."
– GARDEN & GUN
"Wilderness Within You continues the musical evolution Parker Millsap has displayed on each album since his 2012 debut Palisade. When listening, it’s easy to see why he got name-checked by none other than Sir Elton John a few years back. His music is so mature, it’s hard to remember that Millsap is still in his 20s
with a lifetime of music ahead of him to evolve even further."
– NO DEPRESSION
"An impressive collection…Millsap’s predilection to balance his organic impulses
with occasional gloomier edges, both lyrically and musically, is encouraging."
– AMERICAN SONGWRITER
"ParkerMillsap’s sixth studio album is a thing of wonder...
Find a nice view, press play, and letParkerMillsap do the pondering, as no one has done it so beautifully."
– GLIDE
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Wilderness Within You was first heralded with two standout tracks, “Running On Time” and “What You’ve Shown Me.” A calming meditation on the rhythms of life, “Running On Time” was joined by an official visual directed by Austin Leih. The third song from the record, the acoustic Krautockin "So Far Apart," was released alongside another Austin Leih-directed video. Both videos are streaming now on YouTube. In April, Millsap released the title track, “Wilderness Within You,” a beautiful rootsy duet with Gillian Welch.
LISTEN TO “RUNNING ON TIME”
WATCH “RUNNING ON TIME” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
LISTEN TO “WHAT YOU’VE SHOWN ME”
LISTEN TO “SO FAR APART”
WATCH "SO FAR APART" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
LISTEN TO "WILDERNESS WITHIN YOU"
Millsap will celebrate Wilderness Within You with a full-band headline run follows, kicking off tonight with a special album release show at Nashville, TN’s Basement East, and then traveling into early summer. Highlights include visits to such legendary venues as West Hollywood, CA’s Troubadour (June 23) and Pioneertown, CA’s world-famous Pappy & Harriet’s (June 25), as well as a festival appearance at San Luis Obispo, CA’s Live Oak Music Festival (June 25). For complete details and ticket availability, please see www.parkermillsap.com/tour.
The follow-up to 2021’s Be Here Instead, Wilderness Within You sees Parker Millsap exploring the intertwined relationship between humanity and nature and finds the Nashville, TN-based artist at his most experimental – playing with field recordings, tape loop-driven soundscapes, and musical genre – but also leans into his own signature classic folk songwriting. Taken in its entirety, the album is a natural step in Parker's evolution which interweaves threads of his musical past and influences to gorgeous effect.
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PARKER MILLSAP - TOUR 2023
MAY
12 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
JUNE
2 – St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway
3 – Kansas City, MO – Knucklehead’s
4 - Wichita, KS - Wichita River Fest
6 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
7 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall
8 – Basalt, CO – TACAW
9 – Torrey, UT – Fort Desolation Fest †
11 – Seattle, WA – Tractor Tsvern
13 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
15 – Sacramento, CA – Starlet Room
16 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
17 – Santa Cruz, CA – Moe’s Alley
18 - Healdsburg, CA - Little Saint
21 – San Diego, CA – Casbah
23 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
24 – Santa Barbara, CA – Live Oak Music Festival †
25 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
27 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
28 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
30 – Dallas, TX – Kessler Theater
JULY
1 – Tulsa, OK – The Vanguard
* Solo Acoustic
† Festival Appearance
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Born and raised in Purcell, OK, a tiny town with a huge sky, Parker Millsap learned early on how to express gratitude through song while playing gospel in the church band. At the same time, he absorbed the honest lyrics of Townes Van Zandt, Mississippi John Hurt’s fingerpicking, and classic albums like Graceland and Rumours. Millsap’s early career recordings – including 2014’s critically lauded Parker Millsap and 2016’s The Very Last Day, the latter an Americana Music Honors & Awards nominee for “Album of the Year” – displayed these influences through character-driven storytelling and minimalist instrumentation. Produced by John Agnello (Waxahatchee, Kurt Vile), 2021’s Be Here Instead hinted at further wildness to come while exploring newer, more personal songwriting styles. Wilderness Within You now marks a natural step in Parker Millsap’s musical evolution, interweaving threads of his musical past and influences to gorgeous, remarkable effect.
Known as a captivating live performer, Millsap has spent much of the past decade on the road, including headline tours, festival sets, and support runs with such like-minded artists as Patty Griffin, Old Crow Medicine Show, Shovels & Rope, Lake Street Dive, Jason Isbell, and Sarah Jarosz, to name but a few. Other highlights include appearances on TBS’ Conan and PBS’ venerable Austin City Limits, as well as a now-legendary performance of “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me” with avowed fan Elton John at the famed Roundhouse in London.
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PARKER MILLSAP
WILDERNESS WITHIN YOU
(Okrahoma Records/Thirty Tigers)
Release Date: Friday, May 12, 2023
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